Marking-gage.



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G. G. BLANDFORD.

MARKING GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 25. 1916.

' 1,234,719. Patented July 31, 1917.

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GEORGE G. BLANDFORD, OF HERRING NECK, NEWFOUNDLAND.

MARKING-GAGE.

Application filed July 25, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE Gr. BLANDFORD, asubject of the King of England, residing at Herring Neck, on Notre DameBay, Newfoundland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMarking-Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to marking gages.

The object of the invention is to provide a marking gage which will besimple in construction, eflicient in use, easily adjusted, and cheap tomanufacture.

lVith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in thedetails of construction and in the arrangement and combination of partsto behereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out inthe claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is aside view of a marking gage constructed in accordance with theinvention,

Fig. 2, a plan view of what is shown in Fig. 1,

Fig. 8, a longitudinal section of the gage,

Fig. 4, a section on the line l1 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 5, an end view of the gage.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Serial No. 111,325.

Referring to the drawing the improved gage is shown as comprising astock 10 having a square cross section and provided with a longitudinalpassage 11 in which is rotatably mounted a shaft 12. Secured to one endof the stock 10 is a bearing plate 13 and fixed on the adjacent end ofthe shaft 12 is a toothed disk 14 which constitutes the marking elementof the gage. Fixed on the end of the shaft 12 remote from the disk 11 isanother disk 15 which bears against the adjacent end of the stock 10 andserves in conjunction with the disk 14 to hold the shaft 12 againstlongitudinal movement. Slidably mounted on the stock 10 is a gage block16 having mounted therein a binding screw 17 adapted to impinge againsta metallic strip 18 embedded in the stock 10 for the purpose of lockingthe block 16 in a desired adjustment.

What is claimed is:

A marking gage comprising a stock, a shaft rotatably mounted in thestock and extending from end to end through the latter, a toothedmarking disk fixed on one end of the shaft, the outer face of whichconstitutes substantially one end face of the tool, and a gage blockadjustably mounted on the stock.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE G. BLANDFORD.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH B. FARTHING, FRANK S. LOOKYER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

